Yes. Some women can do partial breast irradiation in 5 days rather than the traditional full breast radiation for 6-8 weeks. The surgeon places tiny radioactive seeds inside a little baloon and place it directly in the area where the surgeon removes the lump. The seeds are then removed after 5 days of radiation. I have a full article here on the website about Mammosite therapy..

There are a few ways to guide the biopsy needle directly to the suspicious area. Your surgeon might use ultrasound, mammography/computer guided, MRI guided or radioactive seed localization to pinpoint the area. See the article on Breast Biopsies and the one on Radioactive Seed Localization.

In this 52 sec. video I list the basic types of breast cancer. When you hear "triple negative breast cancer" , "HER2 breast cancer" or something similar, they are referring to molecular subtypes within the main type.